July 10 evening

This blog provides an informal forum for terrestrial invertebrate watchers to post recent sightings of interesting observations in the southern Vancouver Island region. Please send your sightings by email to Jeremy Tatum (tatumjb352@gmail.com). Be sure to include your name, phone number, the species name (common or scientific) of the invertebrate you saw, location, date, and number of individuals. If you have a photograph you are willing to share, please send it along. Click on the title above for an index of past sightings.The index is updated most days.

July 10 evening

Annie Pang sends pictures of what are believed to be different individuals of the large house spider, kindly identified by Robb Bennett as Eratigena duellica.

Eratigena duellica (Ara.: Agelenidae) Annie Pang

Jeremy Tatum shows a caterpillar feeding in a variety of garden rose:

Egira crucialis (Lep.: Noctuidae) Jeremy Tatum

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